Circuits of Time

Enacting Postgenomics in Indigenous Australia

Bibliographic Data

ID4905136
AuthorsM Warin (0000-0001-8766-1087, The University of Adelaide, corresponding author), Jaya Keaney (0000-0001-9779-6276, Deakin University), E Kowal (0000-0003-3866-3224, Deakin University), H Byrne (0000-0002-8575-2273, The University of Adelaide)
Year2023
Volume29
Issue2
Pages20-48
Publication date2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBody & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1357034x211070041
OpenAlexW4213448208
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited64

Some Indigenous Australians have embraced developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) and epigenetic discourses to highlight the legacies of slow violence in a settler colonial context. Despite important differences between Indigenous and scientific knowledges, some Indigenous scholars are positioning DOHaD and epigenetics as a resource to benefit their communities. This article argues that time plays a crucial role of brokering disparate knowledge spaces in Indigenous discourses of postgenomics, with both Indigenous cosmological frames and DOHaD/epigenetics centring a circular temporal model. Drawing on interview data with scientists who work in Indigenous health, and broader ethnographic work in Indigenous Australian contexts where epigenetics is deployed, this article explores how different circularities of space and time become entangled to co-produce narratives of historical trauma. We use the concept of biocircularity to understand the complex ways that Indigenous and postgenomic temporalities are separated and connected, circling each other to produce a postcolonial articulation of postgenomics as a model of collective embodiment and distributed responsibility

Biology · Colonialism · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Indigenous · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temporalities · Traditional knowledge · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Race, Genetics, and Society · Ecology

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